Last weekend, in an interview in The Sunday Times before the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, the PM likened her Cabinet to England’s football team.

“They’re a team that comes together, that prepares well, that gets on with the job and certainly that’s what we’re doing,” she said, just hours before the former Brexit secretary’s shock midnight resignation on Sunday.

“I think we should take a leaf out of Gareth Southgate’s book and say let’s just take it one game at a time.”

Two Cabinet walkouts – and a World Cup semi-final defeat – later, the PM was quite right to be cautious about her Chequers deal.